Last post wins!!!!!

[perfect_pitch]

Well... I regret to inform you all, that now my computer has been fixed...

I have come back to win this thread. You know your attempts to beat me are fruitless, and will simply make my inevitable win - ultimately triumphant.

[visitor]

Well... I regret to inform you all, that now my computer has been fixed...

I have come back to win this thread. You know your attempts to beat me are fruitless, and will simply make my inevitable win - ultimately triumphant.

[perfect_pitch]

[outin]

[perfect_pitch]

They say beauty must be from within....

...cause that's a WHOLE LOT OF UGLY on the outside.

[Bob]

[outin]

[perfect_pitch]

A toupee works better...

[Bob]

Careful.... Might be wire tapped in here... You might summon something with talk like that...

[perfect_pitch]

I'll take my chances... let's see what the Magic 8 ball says...

[yewtree]

Motorbike fail!  

[perfect_pitch]

Anytime I'm feeling bad... this sure as hell cheers me up.

And somewhere, there surely has to be a conductor with a drinking problem.     

[yewtree]

Anytime I'm feeling bad... this sure as hell cheers me up.

And somewhere, there surely has to be a conductor with a drinking problem.     

OMG, that's enough to wake up the dead!     

[visitor]

[Bob]

[visitor]

[yewtree]

[yewtree]

Dreadfully irreverent. 

[perfect_pitch]

I think the weird thing about a lot of renaissance paintings, is that they paint the babies with almost adult eyes and faces...

...creeps the hell out of me.

[Bob]

I remember there was a reason for that mentioned in an art survey course I took.  I don't remember what it was though.  It could have been something like 'that was just the style,' they only draw people one way for some reason, or something about everyone having an adult face, esp for a religious figure as an infant, because it represents their knowledge or wisdom or something.








Here you go.
https://mentalfloss.com/article/66691/why-do-babies-medieval-paintings-look-so-old-and-scary

Babies/children represent Jesus.
Jesus was born perfect so he's painted as an adult because that's what he always was.
So every child in a painting must be painted as an adult too then.
 

[Bob]

HEY!    YAW!!!!! 

Ya!    Ya!    YAAAAAAWW! YAW!

[yewtree]

I remember there was a reason for that mentioned in an art survey course I took.  I don't remember what it was though.  It could have been something like 'that was just the style,' they only draw people one way for some reason, or something about everyone having an adult face, esp for a religious figure as an infant, because it represents their knowledge or wisdom or something.








Here you go.
https://mentalfloss.com/article/66691/why-do-babies-medieval-paintings-look-so-old-and-scary

Babies/children represent Jesus.
Jesus was born perfect so he's painted as an adult because that's what he always was.
So every child in a painting must be painted as an adult too then.
 

I think that is correct Bob, the Christ child is always depicted as older and wiser for his years full of wisdom. Here is a painting  of the Christ child  looking world weary and all knowing as if he knows where we are all ultimately heading, like we are all doomed!

[lostinidlewonder]

I always found it funny Christ is often portrayed as white, blond and blue eyed. This would be more accurate:

[perfect_pitch]

And yet, he looks drunk to me...

[Bob]

Lots of symbolism/code too.  I see apples up there.  And a pear?


*Bob wonders what long, slender, apparently crushed fingers represent.*  Something going in the 'wrong' direction possibly, haha.  Or maybe just the artist's inability to draw hands.



I did read a comment a while ago about what was "in," correct, and just the way they did things or their concept of what things should look like vs. drawing or painting in a photo realistic way.  No photos?  No artists trying to draw or paint and have it look like a photo.  Were they unable?  Even in Realism, you know it's still a painting.  It's not like you look at it and then realize, "Oh, wow, that was actually done with pens?  I thought it was a photograph."

Like this one.  I'm even thinking about double checking that this was actually done with a pen.



https://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/08/samuel-silva-incredible-photorealistic.html


I guess you tell on the edges.  The other ones on that page look more drawn than this one.



I think I'm more impressed now... if this was actually hand drawn, without tracing.



https://printscreen.hu/cimkek/samuel-silva
Google translate...
"Amazing what Samuel Silva is doing with a dozen colored balls. The nature of the genre also determines the difficulty level, but it does not spend 60 to 70 hours on a single drawing, so that the end result is a photorealistic representation. The creator has some attraction to cats, and of course, for many, this is a bit tedious topic, but let's look at this, since how many people are capable of mimicking this with a ballpoint pen? Worth to see DeviantART's gallery, because there are more interesting and beautiful graphics for the visitor looking for visual stimuli!"


https://vianaarts.deviantart.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Silva

[Bob]

Found another.


https://i.imgur.com/z47dLkk.gifv

[visitor]

[Bob]

[perfect_pitch]

Found another.


https://i.imgur.com/z47dLkk.gifv

This is the extent of my drawing skills...

BEHOLD MY GLORIOUS, AND UNRIVALED TALENT!!!!!







 

[Bob]

That is photo realistic... if you take a photo of it after you draw it. 


Meanwhile...


https://i.imgur.com/BWbNHCX.gifv

[perfect_pitch]

So some cats are scared of bubbles... This information is MOST useful.   

 

[Bob]

*Bob thinks of a way to get perfect_pitch removed from the thread.*

https://www.peta.org




"Arrest that man!  He's blowing bubbles at cats in a threatening and aggressive manner.!"

[perfect_pitch]

https://www.peta.org

"Arrest that man!  He's blowing bubbles at cats in a threatening and aggressive manner.!"

Given that the morons at PETA think that animals are not to be eaten (which is ridiculous since Chicken is *** delicious, and no man can go past a steak), I hope you're a Vegan... before you ranting off to PETA about me...   

[Bob]

He's training young.





And this guy would be some kind of bubble terrorist.

[goldentone]

[perfect_pitch]

Pffft... Considering cats can also be distracted with balls of wool...

I don't think we have anything to worry about.

[Bob]

Balls of wool?  That's when you're kind of determined but not really?  You'll follow through but if you don't really feel like it or something gets the way you might not too. 

[outin]

Balls of wool?  That's when you're kind of determined but not really?  You'll follow through but if you don't really feel like it or something gets the way you might not too. 

Is your google broken?

[yewtree]

Gym nuts! 

[perfect_pitch]

Either Outin was dumb enough to type 'balls of wool' into Google...

...or Google now has a record of Outin typing 'Sheep Genitalia' into their search engines...

...either way - not good.



And seriously Outin???

[outin]

Either Outin was dumb enough to type 'balls of wool' into Google...

...or Google now has a record of Outin typing 'Sheep Genitalia' into their search engines...

Actually that's an alpaca...and the right word is testicle 

[yewtree]

Testing, testing! 

[outin]

There IS definitely something wrong with me...because I found that hilarious 

[perfect_pitch]

Well... I may be winning the thread in terms of last post wins...

...but I also seem to be in the lead about who's the most mature among us.

[Bob]

And that will be how the thread ends.





I looked them up.  Apparently balls of steel don't get as cold or stay as cold as regular ice so they're not so great.  Ice cubes melt and water things down.

[perfect_pitch]

Well... somewhere is a Cyborg grabbing his crotch... and missing his man parts...

...just so this guy can have an ever-so-slightly colder drink without it being diluted.

[Bob]

I wonder why you couldn't fill the steel ball with ice and solve both problems.  Cold as ice but no melt.

[perfect_pitch]

I doubt the Steel would get cold enough to allow the ice inside to freeze...

Plus - god help the drunken idiot who accidentally swallows them.

[outin]

I doubt the Steel would get cold enough to allow the ice inside to freeze...

Plus - god help the drunken idiot who accidentally swallows them.

Right! When the cyborg comes to get them back I'm sure he won't wait for them to come out naturally...

[perfect_pitch]

Well... somewhere is a Cyborg grabbing his crotch... and missing his man parts...

Plus - god help the drunken idiot who accidentally swallows them.

Right! When the cyborg comes to get them back I'm sure he won't wait for them to come out naturally...